Regularly no signal at the outlet of reson~ objects

I have a voice synthesizer, based on 5 paralel formant filters. I use the reson~ object for the paralel filters.

My problem is the following : quite often, suddenly, while the input signal and input arguments (gain, central frequency and Q) of reson~ remains the same, signal is cut (no signal) at the outlet of one or several reson~ objects.

To find back signal at the outlet, I have to reinitialize the reson~ object by copying and "pasting replacing" it (sending to it the message clear keeps the signal cut).

The strange thing is that when I copy and paste replace one of the not working reson~ objects, then sometimes another or several other reson~ objects which before were ok stops to outlet signals too …

I can quite easily reproduce the issue just by copying and pasting the subpatch where my 5 reson~ are.

I use Max 5.1 on Mac OSX. Sorry I can’t enclose the synth to help you. I don’t any error in the Max window.

Until I find a solution, I think I’m going to try to use fffb object instead of reson~ one, even if it’s not adviced for parameter changes (Maxhelp file : "but for the sake of speed does not accept signals for parameter changes.")

@Peter McCulloch
– The nature of the signal is a glottal flow model, so it’s periodic plus noise, sampling rate of 44100 Hz.
– The clear message doesn’t make anything, the signal remains stopped.
– I have a database for different voice timbres. Approximatly :
* the amplitude coeff range is from 0 to 10 ; Acutally, I receive the dB value then it goes to "expr pow(10.0,($f1/20.0))", then to the reson~ inlet.
* the frequency range is from 300 to 5000,
* and the Q range is from 10 to 1000.
They may change very fastly (going from one to another value in 10ms) to modelize transition between consonant and vowel.

@n00b_meister
– I also tried to make a simple patch to find the problem, but when my patch becomes simple (coeffs which remains the same, input signal stable, etc…) I don’t this issue anymore.
– I haven’t tried other filters. I’m going to try the ones you purposed me.

The synth was controlled by a Magic track pad (with fingerpinger object). Since I got a new (not official) release of this object (because it frequently made Max crashed), this issue with the reson~ object clearly occurs very less frequently …

I don’t know why ..

The crashing reports with fingerpinger (which doesn’t occurs with this new version) were the following :